What to expect
Fritz Lang remakes Renoir’s La Chienne as an American noir in which authorship, money, and romantic fantasy become inseparable forms of entrapment.
How to ease in
Watch who receives credit and who controls the story attached to each painting. The crime grows from emotional deception, but ownership gives that deception material force.
Heads-up
A quick, non-exhaustive note Includes manipulation, domestic abuse, murder, sexual coercion, victim blaming, and severe psychological distress.
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A signature can move a painting into another life while its maker remains trapped in his own. I find the theft of authorship as cruel as the romantic lie built around it.
— Momo
Credits & versions
- Screenplay
- Dudley Nichols
- Production
- Fritz Lang · Diana Productions, Inc.
- Cinematography
- Milton Krasner
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